Who is Yuh-Line Niou? Dem NY Rep apologizes for liking tweet comparing NYPD to Nazis
A New York Democratic assembly women is now in the spotlight for liking a tweet that compared New York city police officers to Nazis. New York Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou “liked” a tweet comparing the thousands of New York City police officers who attended the funeral for fallen Officer Jason Rivera to Nazis, according to the New York Daily News. She criticized the attitude of NYPD officers for not wearing masks throughout the proceedings and even after, while they were entering the subway cars in New York.
In response to a tweet where Niou said that New York City police officers were a “massive health risk to every New Yorker” one Twitter user compared the police officers to Nazis. According to the New York daily news, Niou liked the tweet instantly but later unliked it saying that it had happened unintentionally and she didn't actually mean to 'like' the post.
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Yuh-Line Niou is a Taiwanese-American politician serving as a member of the New York State Assembly for the 65th district. This Lower Manhattan district, which is heavily Democratic and over 40% Asian, includes Chinatown, the Financial District, Battery Park City, and the Lower East Side. Niou is the first Asian-American elected to the State Assembly for this district. She assumed the office in 2017 and is currently serving the tenure in her constituency. She attended Evergreen State College, and worked as an aide to members of the Washington State Legislature. Diagnosed with autism when she was 22 years old, she moved to New York in 2010 to obtain a master's degree from Baruch College and served as chief of staff to State Assemblyman Ron Kim.
It honestly takes a lot to take a heartbreaking tragedy and a family’s moment of mourning and turn it into a frightening show of intimidation for the whole city and be a massive health risk to every New Yorker. But they somehow did it. https://t.co/htWRjohj7o
— Yuh-Line Niou (@yuhline) January 31, 2022
The NYPD cop Jason Rivera was shot while responding to a domestic violence call involving a mother and her son on January 21. His partner, Wilbert Mora, was also shot and died days later in a hospital due to injuries sustained from the shooting. When reached for comment on the "like," Niou said that it was a mistake and un-liked it. "Sometimes you just accidentally press stuff," she told the New York Daily News. "I’ll unlike it ... I wouldn’t have liked it."
However, Niou did not regret her statements about NYPD officers behaving carelessly on the streets and subway. "The one thing I thought was disgusting was they were purposefully not wearing their masks. It was a show," Niou said. "It was a show of force. That was a choice."
She was probably talking about their fascism rally on the streets above. pic.twitter.com/oMbpPQdPQ5
— AT-AT Stampede (@AtStampede) January 31, 2022
Responding to the tweet, Patrick Lynch, president of the New York City Police Benevolent Association said that the crime is increasing because New York legislators are "busy boosting anti-cop hate online. This is why our streets have gotten out of control. Our legislators are busy boosting anti-cop hate online when they should be fixing the laws that they broke. We’re glad that New Yorkers sent a resounding message last week and again this week. We’re not going to let self-serving politicians divide us again," Lynch told Fox News Digital on Wednesday, February 2.